We are inundated with philosophies of the person that create anxiety, loneliness, and social disorder. We need to recover a vision of the person that affirms the goodness of being and the body.
>Reducing reason to the empirical takes all the fundamental human experiences: love, beauty, hope, friendship, goodness, mercy, compassion, forgiveness, and justice - and relegates them outside the realm of reason. It severs the relationships between reason and affectivity.
As a more direct antithesis of this, maybe something like "emotional noncognitivism" should be on the negative list? Meaning the therapy-esque analysis of emotions only in terms of their local cause and effect, rather than in terms of what theyre about, because it denies that theyre about anything.
Thanks for your comment -- If I understand you correctly, I think your analysis makes sense -- the reduction of rationality leads to a bad therapy approach as you suggest - since ultimately we are living in a type of disconnected emotivism. It is of course, sloppy and often incoherent because no one actually lives a reductionist rationality so the theory doesn't match lived experience
>Reducing reason to the empirical takes all the fundamental human experiences: love, beauty, hope, friendship, goodness, mercy, compassion, forgiveness, and justice - and relegates them outside the realm of reason. It severs the relationships between reason and affectivity.
As a more direct antithesis of this, maybe something like "emotional noncognitivism" should be on the negative list? Meaning the therapy-esque analysis of emotions only in terms of their local cause and effect, rather than in terms of what theyre about, because it denies that theyre about anything.
Thanks for your comment -- If I understand you correctly, I think your analysis makes sense -- the reduction of rationality leads to a bad therapy approach as you suggest - since ultimately we are living in a type of disconnected emotivism. It is of course, sloppy and often incoherent because no one actually lives a reductionist rationality so the theory doesn't match lived experience